Yiyun Li Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the world and it's sad. I'm happy with the way the novel came out but all the characters' ending really saddened me.

  Yiyun Li

  Children, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

• Why do I write about China? That is a very good question. I think there are questions about China that I haven't been able to answer. The reason I write is that there are questions to which I want to find answers - or I want to find questions beyond those questions.

  Yiyun Li

  Writing, Thinking, Reason

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.

  Yiyun Li

  Meaningful, Writing, Language

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• You can write about a country without taking a stand, but you cannot write about a country without noting that there's history, and that there's politics going on. To me, that's the same if you write about America. You don't have to write about politics, but the politics have to be present in the characters.

  Yiyun Li

  Country, Writing, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

  Yiyun Li

  Struggle, Writing, Someday

• What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

  Yiyun Li

  Letting Go, Distance, Writing

  Yiyun Li (2017). “Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life”, p.20, Random House

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